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Subject: Re: If you like to solve a mate...

Author: leonid

Date: 12:47:55 02/12/01

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On February 12, 2001 at 13:11:53, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On February 12, 2001 at 07:29:02, leonid wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>If you like to solve a mate, try this position:
>>
>>[D]rQ1Q1rnk/q4qbp/3nQqbB/q1Q1NnNn/5QQ1/b2Q4/1QB3Q1/1K1R3R w - -
>>
>>Please, indicate your result.
>>
>>In dispite that this position is not that deep and difficult, if your program
>>don't know how to deel with white crowd it could be in serious trouble. My was
>>deadly slow in searching for mate even by selective search. Reason - white have
>>142 initial moves and goes beyond 150 during the search for mate. Good challenge
>>for every chess program!
>>
>>Thanks for responding,
>>Leonid.
>
>Hmmm, not deep?  Not difficult?  "There is no mate in 6" by Chest burns
>nearly 18 minutes on a K6-3/400 with 50MB hash.  I have started depth=7,
>but I expect at least 3 hours to complete it, and may be more.
>At least I can confirm the 142 initial legal moves.
>
>Heiner

Thanks, Heiner! You are very close! Mine found mate in 8 by selective. It was
long. Took 1 min 17 sec.

It is simple since there are not that many moves before the mate and starting
move (for 8 moves) is checking one.

Leonid.



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